damned
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They soon understand that to be heartbroken is to be damned to know the exquisite pain of being alive.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Now interest in vintage Jeeps, Land Rover Defenders and Ford Broncos is surging for women who will pay top dollar for old cars, never-ending upkeep be damned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Instead, the young band just returned from dazzling audiences at Las Vegas’ Sick New World Festival and is focused on the release of its debut album — homework be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Every one of us who comes through that gate is damned to the same fate, ultimately.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
We move on to another patchwork team doing its damndest to defy the odds.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Marvel has an extensive catalogue of characters to anoint as the next generation of Avengers; it’s also doing its damndest to make the X-Men cool again.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
One had to do with the other: The simpler the system was, the less the players had to worry about anything but trying their damndest to execute it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
PES Goody and SilveryFox trying to heard chickens by doing their damndest to organise something resembling the World Cup for the PES bloggers.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2010
We did our damndest, which angels can't do no more.
From The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
If a young band can meet a grim moment like this, the Neighborhood Kids did their damnedest on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
"It can't achieve strategic surprise but it will try its damnedest to achieve operational and tactical surprise. That will involve concealment, camouflage, deception, misinformation which they used quite successfully last autumn."
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
“I just think that it’s a really major part of the American contribution to the history of comedy. I like to try my damnedest to keep it alive,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Bernard called it “controlled confidence,” and it looked just as much like unmitigated energy, and the whole dance reached its hilt in the damnedest sequence amid the third quarter.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2021
“That’s not from you. I slipped and fell on a rock right after you left. It was the damnedest thing!”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
